296 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



" I deal only with a few of the most salient points that serve to distinguish frona 

 each other tlie four species examined in the following notes. 



" Of 14 specimens of Baoris $ $ sent me by Col. Swinhoe for examination, one is 

 as regards the appendages at once separated from the others by the very different 

 outline of the clasps. In all the others the ventral margin of the clasp is prolonged 

 into a very sharp point or spine, much like the figure given by Elwes and Edwards as 

 representing oceia (Fig. 74).* But in Col. Swinhoe's specimen of oceia from the 

 Philippines, the one that differs from the rest, the angle that is prolonged in the others 

 is so far back as to appear merely as an angle on the inner margin. The prolonged 

 extremity of the clasp is angular and appears to correspond with what, in the others, 

 is the rounded meetino; of the dorsal and terminal margins. The cedoeagus is 

 comparatively short, and has no marked armature ; the vesica presents two sets 

 of cornuti, which overlie one another in the preparation, and so are not easy to define, as 

 to their mutual relations, one is of very regularly arranged angular points, the other 

 consists of a great number of longer, narrower and less chitinised spines which lie closely 

 packed like a brush. It may be noted that in all the species the uncus is very similar. 



" Of the thirteen with the sharp point at the end of the ventral margin of the clasp 

 there are three specimens all obviously of one species that are labelled unicolor from 

 iSikkim, simillivia from Borneo, and one unnamed from Burma. 



" In these the oedoeagus is almost the same as in oceia, and there being three 

 specimens, the different positions they have assumed show that the set of cornuti that 

 is paler and more brush-like is on the extension of the vesica, extended the furthest. 



" In this species the sharp spine of the clasp is finely rough like the rest of the surface. 



" The remaining ten consist of two species, one labelled leechii, China ; the 

 other 9 are labelled 3 sikkima from Sikkim, 3 scopulifera from Andamans and Nicobar, 

 and the 3 others are from Assam, Khasia Hills and Burma. 



" Both these species differ from the two preceding {oceia and unicolor) in the 

 oedoeagus having a formidable armament apart from the vesica. 



" In leechii the whole ajipendages are smaller than in the other species, the 

 terminal portion of the clasp is narrow from before backwards, and especially at its 

 dorsal margin. (As the photograph shows, the uncus was unfortunately displaced in 

 preparing the specimen, there are also some air-bubbles in the oedoeagus.) 



" The oedoeagus has along the dorsal (in the preparation) margin of the opening 

 an array of short spines very like those on the vesica. The vesica possesses a very 

 similar armature to those of the preceding species, but rather smaller and more compact. 



" In the 9 specimens of sikkima and those agreeing with it there is considerable 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 274, pi. 25. 



